From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 5 12:25:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oberon.dnai.com (oberon.dnai.com [207.181.194.97]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16CE84640 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 12:25:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.100.2] (dnai-216-15-121-43.cust.dnai.com [216.15.121.43]) by oberon.dnai.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA25612 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 12:26:10 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: stevel@apollo.coastside.net Message-Id: Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 12:27:57 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Steve Leibel Subject: how to disable local dns lookups? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a second machine (a Mac, as it happens) on my home network. I don't run a local DNS. When I telnet or ftp into my FreeBSD machine from my Mac, the connection takes about 30 or 40 seconds to come up. However when I turn on my dialup Internet connection (which coincidentally is on the Mac -- I use the Mac as a router, using third-party routing software called IPNetrouter) my telnet and ftp connections to FreeBSD come up right away, as they should. What I think must be happening is that when my Net connection is down, FreeBSD must be trying to do DNS resolution, retrying a few times, and then giving up. How do I tell telnet and ftp on FreeBSD to not do DNS lookups when receiving connection requests? Or do you think something else is going on? Steve L To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message